In the article "Reading and Writing without Authority", Ann Penrose and Cheryl Geisler argue that differences in authority all occur within an academic sphere. They go on by saying that lack of authority may lead to the downfall of a students education.
QD.
3. Some of the differences I noticed between the two was that Janet wasn't very creative in her process she stuck to a guided plan. However, Roger used creativity to his advantage and really thought outside the box.
4. Unfortunately Janet did not have any trust in herself which made for a writing that was weak and underdeveloped. In order to change Janet needs to find confidence when trying to attack the blank page and truly let her creativity flow across the page.
5. I am definitely more like Roger because when writing I feel the freedom to express what I feel. I like writing differently than everyone else because it gives the reader a sense of who I am and how I differ from other writers.
MM
This reading will help me in the future when it comes to writing research papers because I now have the knowledge to make concise arguments and now how to support them with my writing.
Summary
I found this reading to be beneficial in many ways and I will definitely be able to use this knowledge when writing my fourth paper for english 151.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Feb 24
Summary
n the article "Identity, Authority, and Learning to write in New Workplaces" Elizabeth Wardle argues that change is a key ingredient to have success at writing. She explains that a persons identity can be a major factor in how one may develop in a new discourse community.
QD.
3. The reason for the clash between Alan and his new discourse community was probably due to the fact that he wasn't willing to fully invest himself in the group and truly fit in with the others.
4. Absolutely, form the very beginning people learn how to speak, think, behave, and react to situations very uniquely, and when entering a new discourse community its hard to sculpt our behavior that has been apart of your life for so long to fit something else.
5. I agree with Wardle because belonging to a new group is a joint effort and I don't think Alan was all that committed to changing his ways in order to fit in with his new workplace community.
6. Due to that fact that Alan was picked at random I don't think he can be considered a tool.
7. The only time I can remember someone losing authority was during high school and I had a student teacher and was very unexperienced and wasn't quick to adapt to a teaching position.
AEI
A person who has authority is someone with experience and confidence. These people are very capable in teaching and explaining what is the correct way to do thing is when it come to writing.
Response
I found this article to be a little dry so I lost interest in it pretty quick. However, I did understand the message Wardle was trying to make and I do agree with it.
n the article "Identity, Authority, and Learning to write in New Workplaces" Elizabeth Wardle argues that change is a key ingredient to have success at writing. She explains that a persons identity can be a major factor in how one may develop in a new discourse community.
QD.
3. The reason for the clash between Alan and his new discourse community was probably due to the fact that he wasn't willing to fully invest himself in the group and truly fit in with the others.
4. Absolutely, form the very beginning people learn how to speak, think, behave, and react to situations very uniquely, and when entering a new discourse community its hard to sculpt our behavior that has been apart of your life for so long to fit something else.
5. I agree with Wardle because belonging to a new group is a joint effort and I don't think Alan was all that committed to changing his ways in order to fit in with his new workplace community.
6. Due to that fact that Alan was picked at random I don't think he can be considered a tool.
7. The only time I can remember someone losing authority was during high school and I had a student teacher and was very unexperienced and wasn't quick to adapt to a teaching position.
AEI
A person who has authority is someone with experience and confidence. These people are very capable in teaching and explaining what is the correct way to do thing is when it come to writing.
Response
I found this article to be a little dry so I lost interest in it pretty quick. However, I did understand the message Wardle was trying to make and I do agree with it.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Cover Letter Final paper 3
Cover letter
The main point that my group and I were trying to make with this project is how people can have very unique literacy histories. They way in which we tried to support this idea was by interviewing various people to see how their different backgrounds compared. The counter arguments that we tried to address was that people don't need to stick to a certain set of guidelines to have a strong literacy background, because very one learns differently. I think the whole project worked really well because we have combined a lot of different mediums and which helped make our project interesting. If given more time I would have tried to incorporate more facts into the the movie.
http://amandapaigemily.webs.com/
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Johns reading
Summary
In the article "Discourse communities and Communities of Practice: Membership, conflict, and diversity" Ann Johns expands on the ideas already mentioned by Swales and Gee. However, johns explains the various problems that arise from discourse communities.
QD
1. Some of the complications Johns outlines that are relates to joining a discourse community are political aspects. It almost mimics social stratification and how people may view others or themselves.
2. The point in which Johns is trying to make is that when joining new the person may not agree with all the guidelines the discourse community has. To me this is very common and expected. This seen a lot in discourse communities such as science, theology, and sports.
3. Yes, because even though I'm involved with a group with a common goal, I believe things differently. I find this to be especially true in my religion. I believe in the same principles, but not exactly as everyone else.
4. I do agre with what Johns says because to be involved in a discourse community you have to agree with the main goal and to diligently with others to obtain that goal.
5. I had great authority over my writing, I follow the guidelines but also create pieces that have individuality .
6. As students our work is still being judged by teachers and evaluated with grades that are to precious to risk.
MM
Understanding Johns writing has helped me understand the discourse communities I currently belong to and has given me the advice to make my experiences with the community a lot stronger.
Response
I liked the article because one it kept me interested and two because it offered advice and answered questions I had regarding discourse communities.
In the article "Discourse communities and Communities of Practice: Membership, conflict, and diversity" Ann Johns expands on the ideas already mentioned by Swales and Gee. However, johns explains the various problems that arise from discourse communities.
QD
1. Some of the complications Johns outlines that are relates to joining a discourse community are political aspects. It almost mimics social stratification and how people may view others or themselves.
2. The point in which Johns is trying to make is that when joining new the person may not agree with all the guidelines the discourse community has. To me this is very common and expected. This seen a lot in discourse communities such as science, theology, and sports.
3. Yes, because even though I'm involved with a group with a common goal, I believe things differently. I find this to be especially true in my religion. I believe in the same principles, but not exactly as everyone else.
4. I do agre with what Johns says because to be involved in a discourse community you have to agree with the main goal and to diligently with others to obtain that goal.
5. I had great authority over my writing, I follow the guidelines but also create pieces that have individuality .
6. As students our work is still being judged by teachers and evaluated with grades that are to precious to risk.
MM
Understanding Johns writing has helped me understand the discourse communities I currently belong to and has given me the advice to make my experiences with the community a lot stronger.
Response
I liked the article because one it kept me interested and two because it offered advice and answered questions I had regarding discourse communities.
Monday, February 20, 2012
homework feb 20
In the article "The Concepts of Discourse Community" John Swales discusses what discourse communities are. He agues that six distinct characteristics help define discourse communities. Swales says that "when a group of people shares goals or purposes and uses communication to achieve them, we can call that group a discourse community" (471).
QD
1. A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals- these are goals that are written in documents which define that groups mission and the steps in which they need to take to get there.
A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members- this is the medium in which the groups communicates whether its through newsletters, meetings, emails, and so on.
A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback- one way that this happens is when someone signs up for a specific journal or magazine. It is also used to exchange information on certain topics.
A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims- this involves using resources that have relevance to a certain discourse community.
In addition to owing genres, a discourse community has acquired some specific lexis- an example of this could be the use of acronyms to describe something.
A discourse community has a threshold level members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise- each member of a discourse community begins as a novice or apprentice and then hopefully later becomes an expert.
3. According to Swales a first-years college class would not be considered a discourse community but a graduate class would.
5 A discourse community I belonged to was the softball team in high school.
MM
I dont really see any difference in my writing because I'm still doing assignments for general education, nothing specific yet.
I found this article to be boring because it was dry and it didn't relate to me.
In the article "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics" James Paul Gee attempts to explain how Discourse in not just a community its more of a melting pot of ideas, actions, and social practices.
QD
3. Discourse with a Capitol D is a combination of writing, saying, valuing, and believing where as discourse communities are only directed in one direction.
4. Primary discourse- are the discourses we use to interact with others in the world.
secondary- these are established after initial socialization.
dominate- these are secondary Discourses that bring solidarity with a certain social goods.
QD
1. A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals- these are goals that are written in documents which define that groups mission and the steps in which they need to take to get there.
A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members- this is the medium in which the groups communicates whether its through newsletters, meetings, emails, and so on.
A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback- one way that this happens is when someone signs up for a specific journal or magazine. It is also used to exchange information on certain topics.
A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims- this involves using resources that have relevance to a certain discourse community.
In addition to owing genres, a discourse community has acquired some specific lexis- an example of this could be the use of acronyms to describe something.
A discourse community has a threshold level members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise- each member of a discourse community begins as a novice or apprentice and then hopefully later becomes an expert.
3. According to Swales a first-years college class would not be considered a discourse community but a graduate class would.
5 A discourse community I belonged to was the softball team in high school.
MM
I dont really see any difference in my writing because I'm still doing assignments for general education, nothing specific yet.
I found this article to be boring because it was dry and it didn't relate to me.
In the article "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics" James Paul Gee attempts to explain how Discourse in not just a community its more of a melting pot of ideas, actions, and social practices.
QD
3. Discourse with a Capitol D is a combination of writing, saying, valuing, and believing where as discourse communities are only directed in one direction.
4. Primary discourse- are the discourses we use to interact with others in the world.
secondary- these are established after initial socialization.
dominate- these are secondary Discourses that bring solidarity with a certain social goods.
Friday, February 17, 2012
cover letter paper 4
The main point that my group and I were trying to make with this project is how people can have very unique literacy histories. They way in which we tried to support this idea was by interviewing various people to see how their different backgrounds compared. The counter arguments that we tried to address was that people don't need to stick to a certain set of guidelines to have a strong literacy background, because very one learns differently. I think the whole project worked really well because we have combined a lot of different mediums and which helped make our project interesting. If given more time I would have tried to incorporate more facts into the the movie.
Monday, February 13, 2012
4th paper
My fourth paper I think is going to investigate on how people can improve literacy rates throughout different levels of education.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Cover Letter Final Amanda
With this paper I really wanted to relate the writing process to something that was unusual. While brainstorming different ideas I came up with an archaeological dig because of the various steps involved. I think some of the things the things that worked well for my paper was the comparison and how the paper flows. If I was given more time I have try and find more connections on how they both relate to each other. I did have trouble writing it in a personal form because I was always taught not to do that and when I tired it sounded funny so I stuck with the traditional form or writing.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/81128126/Amanda-Paper-2-Final
http://www.scribd.com/doc/81128126/Amanda-Paper-2-Final
Monday, February 6, 2012
Feb 6
In the article Sponsors Of Literacy, Deborah Brandt explains how people become able to read, write or literate. She further explains this process by showing the reader that these things are achieved through sponsors or people, thought or ideas, and institutions.
QD
1. She explains them to be people with multiple characteristics and come from very different backgrounds.
2. Sometimes literary sponsors tend to only focus their attention on the wealthy and middle class and forget to notice the less fortunate lower class.
3. She uses the term stratified basically like everyone else, she means it to be a way to almost separate a group of people. Stakes on the others means the potential a person may have.
AEI
I have learned literary through my family and my schoolwork. My family tries to pass on their values to me and teach me the importance of each. In school I learn the importance of hard work and discipline.
Response
I was a little confused reading this entry but by the end I felt that I understood enough to agree with what Brandt's message was.
QD
1. She explains them to be people with multiple characteristics and come from very different backgrounds.
2. Sometimes literary sponsors tend to only focus their attention on the wealthy and middle class and forget to notice the less fortunate lower class.
3. She uses the term stratified basically like everyone else, she means it to be a way to almost separate a group of people. Stakes on the others means the potential a person may have.
AEI
I have learned literary through my family and my schoolwork. My family tries to pass on their values to me and teach me the importance of each. In school I learn the importance of hard work and discipline.
Response
I was a little confused reading this entry but by the end I felt that I understood enough to agree with what Brandt's message was.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
cover letter peer
The main point I was trying to make in my paper was how the writing process is similar to an archaeological dig and that this not only applies to how I write but how others may as well. I tired to support my idea with how an archaeological dig compares to writing in several different ways and that the overall feeling is the same. I think there needs to be a lot added to the paper I felt rushed in the process of writing. I think my introduction is strong and has a nice hook. I would really like to elaborate more on certain thoughts if given more time to work on it.
URL http://www.scribd.com/doc/80316426/Amanda-Paper-2-Draft-1
URL http://www.scribd.com/doc/80316426/Amanda-Paper-2-Draft-1
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